Abstract: A lift installation according to the invention comprises a drive unit (2) which by way of a drive wheel (4.1) drives at least one lift support means (12) supporting a lift cage (3), wherein the lift support means has on a traction side facing the drive wheel (4.1) a rib arrangement with at least two ribs (13) which extend in longitudinal direction of the lift support means and which engage in corresponding grooves on the drive wheel, wherein the rib arrangement comprises a tensile carrier arrangement with at least one tensile carrier (14) arranged in a rib. The lift support means has on a belt back side remote from the traction side a carrier band (15) to which the ribs of the rib arrangement are fastened. A groove (16) reaching substantially as far as the carrier band is formed between two adjacent ribs (13) of the rib arrangement.

Abstract: An elevator belt for an elevator installation includes a wedge rib arrangement with at least two wedge ribs which extend in a longitudinal direction of the elevator belt and form a contact side for engagement with a drive wheel of the elevator installation, a tensile carrier arrangement with at least two tensile carriers arranged in two mutually adjacent wedge ribs of the wedge rib arrangement, and a back layer which forms a rear side, which is opposite the contact side, of the elevator belt. The back layer has a profile with at least one web projecting into the wedge rib arrangement towards the contact side.

Abstract: A lift belt (12) for a lift installation comprises a belt body (15) in which a tensile carrier arrangement (14) with several tensile carriers (14.1, 14.2) for transmission of a tension force in longitudinal direction of the lift belt is arranged. A profile body (16) which spaces these tensile carriers from one another is arranged between adjacent tensile carriers (14.1, 14.2) of the tensile carrier arrangement (14).

Abstract: In this lift installation, lift braking equipment (11) brakes and holds a lift cage (2). The lift braking equipment (13) consists of a number of brake units (12) which when required are brought into engagement with brake tracks (6), wherein the brake unit (12) for this purpose presses at least one brake plate (14) against the brake track (6) and produces a braking force (FB). According to the invention, for checking the braking equipment (11) an effective coefficient of friction (?e), which is generated during pressing of the brake plate (14) against the brake track (6), of the brake unit is ascertained. Moreover, a placing in operation with use of this checking method is illustrated and equipment for performing this placing in operation is presented.

Abstract: A brake assembly for an in-vehicle platform lift including at least one column and at least one flexible drive member. The brake assembly has at least one lever including a brake face that engages the column to brake the platform lift when the flexible drive member goes slack. The brake assembly is biased into the brake position and can be configured to brake the platform lift when the flexible drive member is stationary.

Abstract: A method and a system for responding to a service request sent to a transportation service, determining one or more alternatives as a transportation device for the user and selecting a personal transportation device. An automated transportation system according to the invention comprises: an elevator group comprising a plurality of elevators, a passenger terminal device for reserving elevators for use by passengers, an elevator group control system responsive to the passenger terminal device for controlling the elevators. The method of the invention comprises the steps of: entering a personal service request via the terminal device, determining on the basis of the service request at least one alternative as a transportation device for the user, and selecting via the terminal device one of the alternatives as the transportation device.

Abstract: An elevator installation with at least one upper elevator car and at least one lower elevator car includes a first electromechanical switching mechanism mounted on the upper car and having a weight fastened at a downwardly extending elongate run, the run being held in a travel setting by the weight force, and a second electromechanical switching mechanism mounted on the lower car vertically below the weight. In the case of undesired approach of the two elevator cars, the weight impinges on the second electromechanical switching mechanism and thereby opens a safety circuit of the lower elevator car. The safety circuit of the upper elevator car is also opened by a diminishing of the weight force.

Abstract: A brake carrier for a heavy vehicle disc brake includes an actuating side carrier portion including a support for an actuating side brake pad having a first material having a first property. The brake carrier also includes a separate reaction side carrier portion having a support for a reaction side brake pad for securement to the actuating side carrier portion. The actuating side carrier portion includes a first material having a first property, and the reaction side carrier portion includes a second material having a second property, wherein the second property differs from the first property.

Abstract: A disc brake, particularly for a utility vehicle, includes a caliper having a receiving space for an application device. The caliper straddles a brake disc and is movable into an operative connection with brake pads, and is fastened to a brake anchor plate. A holding clip is releasably fastened to the caliper, on which holding clip springs acting upon exterior edges of the brake pad are supported. The holding clip, by way of its end facing away from the receiving space rests in a receiving device of the caliper. For the fastening of the holding clip at its end facing the receiving space on the caliper, a bolt is provided onto which the holding clip is fitted and is held by way of a securing device.

Abstract: In order to safely and conveniently assemble and service new design spring brake actuators having power springs located in the middle of the actuator, the actuator's rear chamber cover must be able to withstand high localized forces from tools such as power spring compression rods. A reinforcement and method for its installation is provided, in which a plurality of reinforcement plates is stacked on the rear chamber cover about a tool-insertion aperture, and the outermost plate is crimped about the aperture, thereby securing the plates to the rear chamber cover in a cost- and time-efficient manner. Preferably, the lip of the rear chamber cover aperture is stamped when the cover is formed such that the lip protrudes axially outward to help assure that the lip is captured between the crimped reinforcing plate on one side and the remaining reinforcing plates on the other side.

Abstract: A brake disk with enhanced cooling features. The brake disk defines a plurality of channels with ribs located within those channels. Two friction plates are connected together by way of a plurality of vanes. The vanes define channels through which cooling air travels. The ribs extend from the surface of friction plates and are chevron shaped. The channels extend between an inner diameter of the brake disk and an outer diameter and direct cooling air from radially inner regions of the brake disk. The ribs create increased air turbulence and flow features which provide greater heat transfer, thereby providing improved cooling.

Abstract: A magnetorheological (MR) damper includes a damper tube, a movable non-MR damper piston, and a non-movable MR damper piston. The damper tube has substantially hermetically separated first and second chambers, wherein the first chamber contains a non-MR fluid and the second chamber contains an MR fluid. The non-MR damper piston is located in the first chamber and is slidable with respect to the damper tube. The MR damper piston has a longitudinal axis and an electric coil, is located in the second chamber, and is fixedly attached to the damper tube. Sliding the non-MR damper piston with respect to the damper tube causes movement of at least some of the MR fluid longitudinally past the electric coil.

Abstract: A drum brake includes a spider having an anchor with as-cast recesses and anchor seats machined within the as-cast recesses. The as-cast recesses provide clearance for a shaft of a cutting tool during machining of the anchor seats. First and second brake shoes are pivotally supported by the anchor. Each brake shoe has a convex web portion positioned in communication with one of the anchor seats to transfer braking loads to the spider.

Abstract: A shoe brake has a brake element for generating a braking force has at least one brake element that is adjustably settable relative to the brake shoe. The brake element may include an arcuate or segment-shaped base plate that fits in a corresponding arcuate or segment-shaped recess in the brake shoe and is adjustably mounted to the brake shoe by a pair of side panels.

Abstract: In a gear shift module for an automatic transmission of a motor vehicle including a series of gear shift elements for example in the form of gear shift forks, which are operated for the shifting of gears, a gear shift module is provided which has a module baseplate forming part of the cylinders of piston-cylinder units and at least part of a housing of a countershaft brake and a central clutch disengager of a starting clutch. The module baseplate additionally is part of the countershaft brake and of a central clutch disengager whereby these parts can be manufactured jointly providing for lower manufacturing and assembly costs.

Abstract: A disc carrier of a friction clutch is described and illustrated, and in some embodiments has a subassembly of a modular structure which is composed of interconnectable component parts. The component parts can include a holding ring, at least one web, and a base plate.

Abstract: In a power transmitting device, projections are formed on a surface of a main cam that faces an armature. This structure causes the main cam to contact the armature only at distal surfaces of the projections. The area of the distal surfaces of the projections is in a range where the magnetic flux density generated at the distal surfaces of the projections by the electromagnet is saturated. Therefore, reduction of the responsiveness and controllability of the power transmitting device due to magnetization of the main cam is suppressed.

Abstract: A one-way clutch includes an inner ring, an outer ring disposed coaxially with the inner ring, a plurality of rollers interposed between the inner and outer rings, a cage holding the rollers to locate these rollers in a circumferential direction of the inner and outer rings. When the rollers are brought into biting engagement with an outer peripheral surface of the inner ring and an inner peripheral surface of the outer ring, the inner and outer rings rotate in unison, and when the rollers are disposed out of biting engagement with the inner and outer rings, the inner and outer rings rotate relative to each other. Grooves are formed in the outer peripheral surface of the inner ring, and each of the grooves serves to increase a contact pressure of the corresponding roller relative to the inner ring at part of a region of contact between the roller and the inner ring.

Abstract: The invention relates to a synchroniser ring (1) for a synchronisation device (2) of a shiftable change speed gear transmission including a conical ring member (3) having an inner friction surface (4) and an outer installation surface (5) which each bound the ring member (3) in a radial peripheral direction and extend conically around an axial synchroniser ring axis (6) of the synchroniser ring at a predeterminable friction angle (?). The ring member (3) is bounded in the axial direction at a largest conical diameter (d1) by a gear surface (7) with a gear (71) extending substantially perpendicular to the synchroniser ring axis (6) and is bounded at a smallest conical diameter (d2) by a hub surface (8). To fix the synchroniser ring in a cylindrical hollow space (9) of a synchroniser ring hub (10), a security against rotation (11) is provided which is integrally connected to the ring member (3) and extends from the gear surface (7) of the ring body (3) in the direction toward the hub surface (8).

Abstract: An electromagnetic clutch comprising a stator yoke, a rotor and an electromagnetic coil, the stator yoke comprising a thick-walled cylindrical portion and an annular large-outside-diameter portion contiguous at an end thereof perpendicularly to the thick-walled cylindrical portion, a radial section cut from the central axis of the cylindrical portion being L-shaped, a stepped portion being formed at a radially intermediate position of the annular large-outside-diameter plate portion, the stepped portion having an annular vertical surface perpendicular to the radial direction, the rotor comprising an annular small-outside-diameter plate portion, an inner cylindrical portion contiguous at an end thereof perpendicularly to an inner end of the annular small-outside-diameter plate portion, and an outer cylindrical portion contiguous at an end thereof perpendicularly to an outer end of the annular small-outside-diameter portion, the rotor covering an upper end side of the thick-walled cylindrical portion of the sta

Abstract: A magnetic clutch 1 having a rotor 2, an armature 3 having a friction surface 31 disposed opposite and engaged by the friction surface 21 of the rotor 2, an electromagnetic coil 4 for attracting the armature 3 to the side of the rotor 2, and a rubber hub 5 for transmitting the rotational power to driven equipment. The rubber hub 5 is composed of an outer hub 51 fixed to the armature 3, an inner hub 52 connected to the driven equipment, and a rubber part 53 disposed between the outer hub 51 and the inner hub 52. On a surface of the armature 3, a corrosion-preventive coated film is formed by electrodeposition-coating. A powder coated film 6 having a function of preventing adhesion between the armature 3 and the rubber part 53 is formed on a surface of the outer hub 51, on a surface of the inner hub 52, and on a rubber seating surface 531 of the rubber part 53.

Abstract: A rotational speed damper operable to dampen the speed of a gear by gradually decreasing the rotational velocity and angular acceleration of the gear over a time period beginning at the time the damper contacts the gear stop and ending at the time the gear reaches its first stopping point.

Abstract: Arrangement for operating a clutch, in particular a clutch in the power train of a motor vehicle, comprising a means of transmission that is mounted movably in an operating direction with respect to a support. The support is flexibly mounted in the direction of operation with respect to a housing.

Abstract: A bill receiver with foreign matter detection device is disclosed. The bill receiver is that an upper base and a lower base, which are formed to be a bill channel, have a plurality of seams corresponding to each other. A holder is disposed under the lower base. A plurality of detection plates disposed upon the holder corresponds to the plurality of seams of the upper and the lower bases. The holder has flexible displacements through a control device. The detection plates then pass through the seams. It then determines whether or not the bill channel has foreign matters through the position of the holder detected by a detection device.

Abstract: Vending machine system with a vending machine which comprises an interface for a communication with a coin validator/money changer and a counterfeit money detector/recycler, a communication interface being provided between the money changer and the recycler and an audit unit being provided in the vending machine with a communication interface for reading data of the vending machine, characterised in that a second audit unit is provided which is connected to the communication interface of the first audit unit, the second audit unit is connected to the connection of the money changer and the recycler as well as a communication interface for reading data from the vending machine, money changer and counterfeit money detector.

Abstract: In a movable conveyor belt storage installation including a belt storage means (4), conveyor belt support structures (29) following the belt storage means (4), and a movable takeover car (7) including a deflection means (43) for the conveyor belt and a takeup chute (8) for taking over excavated material, the belt storage means (4) is comprised of at least two segments (13, 20, 22, 26) which are connected with one another so as to be pivotable about an axis extending transversely to the belt running direction and passing through the plane of the floor (31), wherein at least a portion of the support structures (29) are capable of being carried along in or on the takeover car (7).

Abstract: An escalator or moving walk has a drive arranged in a reversing area. The drive drives chain wheels that move the step band or pallet band and include a motor, an axial gear, a first hollow shaft and a second hollow shaft. The motor drives a belt to drive a gear input shaft that runs coaxial to the first hollow shaft. Arranged at one end of the gear input shaft is an operating brake; the other end of the gear input shaft is connected to the axial gear. A first flange connects a first chain wheel to a truss. A second chain wheel is arranged at one end of the second hollow shaft; the other end of the second hollow shaft is connected to the housing of the axial gear. A second flange connected to a side plate serves as a torque converter bearing for the axial gear.

Abstract: An automated pallet changer for detachably attaching a pallet with respect to a machine table or a frame, particularly of a 5-axis machining center. The automated pallet changer can attach and/or detach a pallet with respect to the frame. A keeper element is movable with respect to a base of the receiver, between an engaged position and a disengaged position. In the engaged position, the keeper interferes with a least a portion of the pallet to fix the position of the pallet with respect to the machine table. The automated pallet changer according to this invention can be used to eliminate the need for electrical cables, pneumatic lines, hydraulic lines and the like on a conventional 5-axis machining center.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device for transporting sticky and/or wet material in horizontal direction comprising a shaftless spiral or screw having an outside diameter and an inside diameter, a stationary trough having a prismatic shape with at least at its underside a cylindrical part with a liner for supporting the outside diameter of the shaftless spiral or screw, and drive means for rotating the shaftless spiral or screw around a stationary straight centreline, the stationary trough having an inlet opening for receiving transportable material and at its underside an outlet opening for discharging transported material. According to the invention the shaftless spiral or screw is provided over its active length between the inlet opening and the outlet opening along the centreline with a pipe which is rotatable in the inside diameter of the shaftless spiral or screw.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for transmitting graphical data via a communication line. For example, in one embodiment, a system includes means for receiving voice data, means for generating graphical data representative of a user input, and means for simultaneously transmitting the voice data and information representative of the generated graphical data via a communication line such that a bandwidth of the communication line is not exceeded.

Abstract: A power transmission, which transmits a driving force from a driving roller to a driven roller by using a friction roller. The power transmission includes a driving roller, a driven roller spaced apart from the driving roller, and a friction roller to transmit a driving force from the driving roller to the driven roller. The friction roller is disposed above a line connecting between centers of the driving roller and the driven roller. With this construction, the friction roller transmits the driving force in a state of being interposed between the driving rollers and the driven rollers by rotation thereof, thereby allowing the power transmission to have a simplified structure, which does not require a separate pressing spring, and at the same time, to generate a minimum amount of power loss.

Abstract: A modular plastic conveyor belt formed by rows of belt modules connected together at hinge joints by non-circular hinge rods. Each hinge rod has an arcuate outer face that forms a portion of a cylinder and extends circumferentially over a first angle preferably between 90° and 180°. An axial groove is formed in the hinge rod opposite its arcuate outer face. Openings in hinge eyes at opposite ends of the belt rows are sector-shaped. The openings along a leading edge of a row are shaped to receive a hinge rod snugly with little clearance. The openings along a trailing edge of an adjacent row have similar radial dimensions, but extend circumferentially over a second angle greater than the first angle. The hinge eyes of adjacent rows are interleaved and aligned to receive a hinge rod and give the hinge joint a range of articulation.

Abstract: Electronic apparatus that can be disposed in a small space and allows multidirectional input without impairment of a click feeling. A cross key including a plurality of pins is elastically held by an operating member holding mat including a plurality of holes into which the respective pins are insertable. An analog switch overlapped on the operating member holding mat outputs a signal when one of the pins comes into direct contact with the analog switch in response to operation of the cross key. A metallic dome sheet overlapped on the analog switch outputs a signal when one of the pins comes into contact with the metallic dome sheet via the analog switch in response to operation of the cross key. The metallic dome sheet outputs a signal after the analog switch outputs a signal.

Abstract: A gassing insulator for the arc chute assembly of a circuit breaker includes a number of insulating members. The arc chute assembly includes first and second opposing sidewalls, and arc plates having first and second ends and first and second legs. Each insulating member includes a first side coupled to one of the first and second opposing sidewalls of the arc chute assembly, a second side disposed generally opposite the first side, a first end disposed at or about the first ends of the arc plates, and a second end disposed distal from the first end of the insulating member and extending toward the second ends of the arc plates. The first side of the insulating member overlays at least one of the first and second legs of the arc plates, in order to electrically insulate them. An arc chute assembly and an electrical switching apparatus are also disclosed.

Abstract: A lockout device for a switch assembly includes a body and first and second laterally extending pins and a cam member assembled with the body. The laterally extending pins are laterally movable between hole engaging and hole disengaging positions. The cam member is pivotable with respect to the body between locking and unlocked positions. When the cam member is in the locking position, the cam member holds the first and second pins in the hole engaging position. When the cam member is in the unlocked position, the first and second pins are movable from the hole engaging position to the hole disengaging position. The body defines a lock opening configured to receive a lock member to secure the cam member in the locking position.

Abstract: An electrical interconnection comprises a first magnetic conductor and a second magnetic conductor. The second magnetic conductor is magnetically attracted to the first magnetic conductor to establish an electrical conductive path between the first and second magnetic conductors.

Abstract: A portable integrated device and a method of controlling power thereof. The method of controlling power to a digital integrated device which includes a first body and a second body slidingly attached to each other and a first mode and a second mode including sliding the first body relative to the second body from an open position to a closed position, turning off power of the digital integrated device in the first mode, and maintaining the power of the digital integrated device in the second mode. Accordingly, power control may be performed differently according to whether the sliding part is open or closed and whether the preset function mode of the portable integrated device is a camera mode or a non-camera mode, so that functions of the non-camera modes can be maintained even when the sliding part is closed.

Abstract: A footswitch assembly with a position memory includes adjustable mounting mechanisms. A first adjustable mounting mechanism moves the heel cup portion on the treadle pedal assembly to a predetermined position to accommodate the length of a user's foot. A second adjustable mounting mechanism moves the side wing assembly to predetermined position to accommodate the width of a user's foot. A third adjustable mounting mechanism adjusts the force needed to move the treadle pedal assembly.

Abstract: A layered mechanism for use in a circuit breaker fabricated by automated assembly operations includes a movable electrical contact mounted on a blade for movement relative to a stationary electrical contact. The major portion of the blade is substantially flat, and a handle is coupled to the blade to move said blade. A toggle spring is connected to the blade to apply a biasing force in the plane of the flat portion of the blade. The handle and blade form cooperating opposed surfaces that allow engagement of the handle with the blade so that movement of the handle can move the blade while allowing pivoting movement of the blade relative to the handle, while opposed surfaces resist upward pivoting movement of the blade when the toggle spring is attached to the blade during assembly of the circuit breaker.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electrical switching device, in particular a thermal relay having at least one contact point in which, in a first position, the contact point is open and, in a second position, the contact point is closed, having a swivelling contact carrier on which the at least one moving contact piece is held and having an actuator for driving the contact carrier. The actuator is a swivel element, which can rotate about a first axis of rotation, said swivel element being made up of two partial elements, which can be slid in mutually opposing directions and are pushed apart by spring force, of which the first partial element is rotatably mounted and the second partial element acts together with the contact carrier at its free end.

Abstract: A light assembly for interiors of motor vehicles and the like includes a three-way sliding switch having a switch member that is movable to at least three positions corresponding to operating states of the switch. The switch includes an electrically conductive movable contact member that selectively engages conductive members to provide the different electrical states of the switch. The movable contact member also engages a detent structure and forms a three-position detent tending to retain the switch member in the selected position. Thus, the electrically conductive material of the movable contact member provides an electrical function and a mechanical detent function to thereby reduce the complexity and associated cost of the switch.

Abstract: As sensor means for sensing an operation input of a user, a switch device X comprises a first electrode 11 that is an elastic plate member, and a second electrode 12 that is opposed to the first electrode 11. The first electrode 11 is provided so as to be switchable between a first stable posture in which the first electrode is biased to a switch input cancellation position and a second stable posture in which the first electrode is biased to a switch input position. An operation member 17 is provided for applying an operation force to the first electrode 11, thereby returning the posture thereof from the second stable posture to the first stable posture after the posture has been changed from the first stable posture to the second stable posture.

Abstract: To separate resin molded parts that are used for a push button switch member with less light leakage from the side faces and less trouble in key operation, easily, a resin molded body comprises one or more resin molded parts for a push button switch member, a frame surrounding the outside of the resin molded parts, one or more gates connecting a plurality of the resin molded parts each other or the resin molded part to the frame and one or more runners crossing the longitudinal direction of the gates, wherein the gates are connected at the back faces of the resin molded parts not to be coated with light shielding paint, and wherein the runners are connected to the gates on the same surfaces as the resin molded parts are connected to and are connecting the opposing sides of the frame.

Abstract: A switch adapted to make and/or break a connection in an electric circuit to operate a device has a front to face the user and a rear to face away from the user, a housing, and switch mechanism. The switch mechanism includes in operative connection, a lens facing the front, information means, control means, lighting means, capacitive sensing means and power means to operate the lighting means and sensing means. The switch includes communication means to provide electrical connection to the device and is activated by the control means when a change in capacitance is sensed by the capacitive sensing means such that the information means and lighting means can be viewed through the lens and the device is operated.

Abstract: Processes for making xylene isomer using integrated transalkylation and isomerization reaction zones to enhance xylene recovery and enable reduction in capital costs and energy consumption.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to distillation systems and methods. The still may have an impermeable nonporous membrane that may be extruded, molded, vacuum formed or sprayed-on. The membrane may be installed in a lightweight basin as a liner. The distillation system may also include a unique sealing system that may include a gasket with a cross-section shaped like the lowercase letter “e” and may include a trim piece that hold a basin casing and casing cover together. The distillation system may be designed in such a manner so as to make shipping and assembly easy and cost effective. For example, the distillation system may be constructed as a kit that all needed components and all the components are placed inside of a standard dimension box for shipping. In various embodiments, the distillation system may be a solar distillation system.

Abstract: Liquids are treated by ultrasound in a flow-through reaction vessel with an elongate ultrasonic horn mounted to the vessel with one end of the horn extending into the vessel interior. The liquid flow path inside the vessel is such that the entering liquid strikes the end of the horn at a direction normal to the end, then flows across the surface of the end before leaving the vessel. The end surface of the horn is positioned in close proximity to the entry port to provide a relatively high surface-to-volume ratio in the immediate vicinity of the horn end. In a further improvement, the horn is joined to an ultrasonic transducer through a booster block that provides an acoustic gain to the ultrasonic vibrations, and the booster block is plated with a reflective metal to lessen any loss of ultrasonic energy being transmitted to the horn.

Abstract: A method for the controlled release of an agent (e.g., a biomolecule or nanoparticle) into a specified environment, includes the steps of: (a) providing an electrode or array of electrodes, (b) functionalizing the electrode's surface by introducing to it a molecule or molecules (e.g., thiols on a gold electrode) that chemically bond on the electrode surface and form themselves into a self-assembled monolayer (c) attaching or linking said agent to the molecules through a chemical (e.g., using a coupling group such as amine) or electrostatic (e.g., when the agent is DNA) linkage, and (d) electrochemically releasing the agent from the electrode surface.

Abstract: The apparatus and method involve using a gas manifold for introducing gas into a deposition chamber. Certain embodiments involve using a binary manifold for uniform distribution of the gas with good response time. During sputtering operations, provision of an anode using the gas manifold enables such anode to be entirely protected from sputtered dielectric material during the deposition process. As such, conduction paths are initially established and maintained between electrons within the chamber and the anode. This results in improved maintenance of stable plasma and consistent coating in the deposition chamber. The conduction paths are enhanced in comparison to conventional systems due to increased collisions between the electrons and gas flowing out of the manifold outlets. Also, ionization of the gas flowing from the manifold outlets is enhanced, resulting in enhanced deposition output from the system.

Abstract: The present invention generally comprises a monolithic sputtering target assembly for depositing material onto large area substrates. The sputtering target assembly may comprise both the sputtering target and the backing plate in one monolithic structure. By having the backing plate and sputtering target as a monolithic structure, bonding is not necessary. Additionally, cooling channels may be drilled into the monolithic structure so that cooling fluid may flow within the sputtering target assembly without the need for a separate cooling assembly resting on back of the sputtering target assembly.